Talking-machine.



No. 855,674. TATENTED JUNE. 7;, 19C? H. SHEBLE.

TALKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 14, 1907.

WITNESSES:

zgwzgflmwg ATTORNEY v UN 'ITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE SHEBLE, F PHILADE'LPHLA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssioNon T0 HAWTHORNE &SHEBLE MANUFAOTURIN COMPANY, O PHILADEI, PHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ACORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.-

@ TALKING-MACHINE.

' No. 855.674. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed larch 14, 1907. Serial lie, 362,297. v l

To all whom it may concern: ing material. The cradle is pivotally 7 Beit known that I, HORACE ,SHEBLE, a' mounted upon the end of arm 4, thisbeing 5 citizen of the United States, residing at preferably done byroviding a vertical open- Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia.mg through the en of arm 4and a pin 12 on 5 and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a the cradle 5 which is received inthis Opening.- certainnew and useful Improvement in This pin may beformed integral with theTalking-Machines, of which thefollowingis a. cradle or it may be securedin an opening specification. I formed there n; The-latterconstruction-is hisinvention relates to talking-machines referred, thepin beingcxtended u ward to and has reference more particularly to theBeyond the upper surface of the crad e and devices for supporting thesoundeconveying utilized to secure the horn upon the cradle. horns ofsuch machines. l The upwardly extending portion of the pin is The objectof the invention is to effect cerindicated at 13, Fig. 3, and extendsthrough Q-tain improvements in the construction, of an opening in thebottom of the horn 6. I 5 talking-machines with res t particularlyThis'end 13 of the pin is threaded and'a hand to the horn-supporting devces, to, the end nut 14 is screwed thereon to hold the horn 6 thatan-aplparatus is provided in which the uplon the cradlei5, awasher l5being prefer- 7o the horn is he d securely against dis lacement yinserted be'tween nut 14 and the wall of and in which thehorn-supporting evices are horn. g 2 of comparatively small sizef so asnot to de-- It will be seen that the arms 9, 9 and-10,

tract from the appearance 0 the machine. 10,'of,-;'the cradlearecomparatively short and The preferred embodiment of the invention extendaroundbut a very small portion of isillustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, "the horn Movement of the horn upon .the in which j cradle orits displacement therefrom -18, how- 25 Figure l is an elevation of a'talkingnaever, efl'ectuaily prevented, as theend 13 of I chineconstructed in accordancewith my inthe pin and the nut 14 serve to holdthe horn vention; Fig; 2 is a plan view of the ho securely upon the armsof the cradle. Any sup rting cradle; and Fig. 3 is a section on foreignnoises, duev to jarr ng of the hornthelihe 33 of Fig. 1. upon itssupport, are revented by the rub- 3 Referr' to these drawings, 1indicates ber sleeves 11. F urt ermore, this form of the motor fiox,having therein asuitable mocradle can be produced at. very lowmanutor'arran ed to drive a vertical shaft which facturing cost. extendstfirough thetop of the box and carries 7 Having now described minvention, what a rotatable turntable 2. The sound-record I claim as newtherein an desire to secure 35 3, in this case a disk having a laterallyunduby Letters Patent 1s as i'ollows:

lating groove of substantially uniform depth 1. In a talking-machine,the combination I cutinone face thereof, is adapted to be rested of amotor-box, an arm secured to and exupon and rotated by the turn-table 2.Setcndin" outwardly frol the box, a cradle cured to the box 1 andextending outwardly pivotally mounted upon the outer end of the 4therefrom, is an arm 4, ,on the outer end of arm, said cradle having aplurality of outwhich is pivotally mounted a cradle 5, which wardl'-extending supporting arms, a tapercarrics theta ering sound-conve inghorn 6. ing horndn'ectly overlying saldcradlc and Secured to tie smallend of this horn. is a resting upon the arms thereof said armsexsound-box 7 having a stylus 8, the end of t he tending but a shortdistance to either side of 45 stylus tracking in the record-groove inthe a vertical plane through tlieaxis of the horn,

sound-record 3. and means for securing the horn to the era- The cradle.5 consists of a casting having a dlc, substantially as sctjorth. luralitof outwardly extending arms. 2; In a ta]king-nmclnnc, the combinationreferah lythe cradle has our sucharms, the of a lIHllOP-llOX,a-rotulabliturn-table mount- 5 two arms 9,9, atone end thereof beingsomeed thereon, an arm secured to and extending what shorter than thetwo arms 10, 10, at the outwardly. from the box, a cradle pivotallyopposite end. On' the end of each of these mounted upon the outer end ofthe arm havarms is a sleeve 11 of rubber or othencushioning a plum 0y ofintegral outwardly-extendcradle extends, and means received in saidopening, and an arms, a tapering horn di tending pin rectly overlyingthe cradle and resting upon upwardly-extending pin, a tapering the armsthereof, said arms extending-but a ;,haviiig an opening therein throughwhich short distance to either side of a vertical :saidupwardly-extendiug pin extends, and a plane through the axis of thehorn, a sound nut upon said upwardly-extending' pin sebox secured to thesmaller end of the horn, :curing the horn upon the cradle, substanitsstylus adapted to track inth'e groove of tially as set forth. asound-record supported on said turn-table, 5. In a talking-machine, thecombination andmeans for securing-said horn upon said of a motor-box, anarm secured to and exeradle, substantially as set forth. tendingoutwardly from the box, said arm 3'. In a talking-machine, thecombination having an opening through the outer end of a motor-box,- anarm secured to and exthereof, a eradle'having a pair of outwardlytendingoutwardly from the box, a cradle extending arms at one end thereof and apair pivotally mounted upon the outer end of the of longer,outwanally-extending arms at the arm, said cradle having a plurality ofoutother 'end thereof, a pin extending through wardly-extendingsupporting arms and an the cradle adjacent to said longer arms, theupwardly-extending pin, a tapering horn lower end of the-pin 'beingreceived in said opening, ,amaperinghorn having an opening resting uponsaid armsand having an openmg therein through which said pin onthetherein through wh ch the upper'end ot said pin extends and a nut onsaid upper end so coaeting With said pin to secure the'horn upon' thecradle, subcuring the horn upon the arms of the cradle,

- sul;)stantially as set forth.

stantially as set forth.

A. In a talking-machine, the'combination This specification signed andthis 8th day oi" March, 1907 of a motor-box, an arm secured to and ex-HORACE SIIEBLE.

ing supporting witnessed tending outwardly from the box, said arm havingan opening throughthe outer end Witnesses: thereof, a eradle having aplurality of out- A. C. VVRIGn'r,

Wardly-extending arms, a dewnwardly-ex- F. A. DE Limo.

